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A 40-year-old man is dead, and another person was injured following a mid-air skydiving incident near Rochelle

A crash involving two semi-tractor trailers resulted in the death of one of the drivers early Monday morning on the Kankakee/Iroquois County line.

The Illinois State Police issued a reminder for drivers to be careful on and around motorcycles as fatalities increase over the summer months.

One of two people who ran from a vehicle Elmhurst authorities were pursuing was fatally struck Wednesday in the northbound lane of I-294 in Elmhurst.

An elderly woman was pronounced dead Wednesday following a vehicle crash at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood.

A woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Grove Road and Illinois Route 126 in Na-Au-Say Township Tuesday afternoon.

At 8:53 p.m., Plano police were advised by an Amtrak engineer that they believed they had struck a pedestrian near the area of 800 W. Main St.

The state’s appellate court has vacated a Whiteside County judge’s 2024 ruling denying a Sterling man’s motion to withdraw the guilty plea he made three years ago in the 2017 drunken driving death of a Sterling woman.

A Woodridge man died Thursday night after his motorcycle crashed into an SUV in Naperville.

Joshua M. Conway, 19, of rural Polo and Michael C. Gul, 29, of Wauconda, were both found dead late Saturday night on the third floor of a Polo home.

An Earlville teen died Monday, June 9, 2025, in a two-vehicle crash north of Compton in Lee County.

Two people died following a single-vehicle crash in Joliet on Friday night.

John Callahan, the Grundy County Coroner, confirmed Monday that Alexis Kay Higgins-Weatherhead, 18, Coal City, has died after her vehicle was discovered in a lake at around 11 p.m. Sunday on Jugtown Road slightly north of Deerfield Drive.

A Rock Falls man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Whiteside County Circuit Court, then apologized for fatally stabbing the man, whom he considered a friend.

A two-vehicle crash in rural Prophetstown on Wednesday afternoon left one man dead and another injured, according to a news release from the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office.

One person is dead and another one injured after an early morning crash on Interstate 88 near Lisle

An 18-year-old driver died from injuries he suffered in a crash in Joliet Township.

An off-duty Joliet police officer died Friday following a crash in southeastern Will County, the Joliet Police Department said.

Just one day before Kyle Cooper was set to be tried on a first-degree murder charge in a Rock Falls stabbing case, attorneys announced they’ve reached a tentative plea agreement.

A 22-year-old motorcyclist succumbed to injuries sustained in a Wednesday morning crash on Butterfield Road in Wheaton, authorities said.

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the initial investigation indicates the southbound motorcycle crossed into the northbound lane while traveling on Illinois 84 and collided with a northbound semi.

An ill detective and an abundance of pretrial motions – covering everything from whether to let a jury hear a 911 call to the possibility the Rock Falls Police Department violated investigative protocol – has led to a two-day delay in the start of a Rock Falls murder trial.

A 24-year-old man was shot to death Saturday evening during an altercation in Downers Grove, police said.

A Sterling man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to fatally stabbing a man found severely injured last August in a vehicle that crashed in the hospital parking lot.

An Ogle County judge will now be presiding over the felony case of a former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy accused of reckless homicide and destroying evidence in connection with the July death of a Mount Carroll teen.

A Whiteside County judge will decide Friday, May, 9, whether Kyle Cooper’s trial will begin Tuesday, May 13. That decision will follow a hearing on whether the Illinois Attorney General's Office will be able to intervene in the case on behalf of the Illinois State Police.

Jackson Miller, 13, of Prophetstown, died at the scene of the crash in the 18000 block of Lomax Road. Whiteside County deputies were dispatched to that location shortly after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in reference to the crash.

The teen’s name has not yet been officially released.

A 2-year-old child from Bolingbrook has died after being struck by a vehicle over the weekend, authorities said.

A Woodridge man accused of killing a bicyclist while driving drunk and then fleeing the scene was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.

A Lockport man has been charged with the May 2024 murder of his wife.

A 65-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash in Frankfort where the vehicle struck multiple fire hydrants and a tree, police said.

Leonard Younge, 54, died from a fire on Wednesday in Joliet Township that is under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Officers are investigating the Bolingbrook homicide of 17-year-old Daniel Starks.

A 77-year-old woman died in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Caton Farm Road and Essington Road in Joliet, police said.

A Whiteside County judge has directed the Illinois State Police to videotape blood and DNA testing to be carried out at the state crime lab in connection with a Rock Falls fatal stabbing case.

A Joliet man was killed in a crash on Monday morning on Interstate 55 in Channahon Township, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

Police say vehicle overturned, came to rest in a field.

Police say the vehicle overturned several times.

Whiteside County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched around 1:25 a.m. Saturday, March 29, to the 6000 block of Cordova Road for a report of a single-vehicle rollover crash.

Kyle Cooper was to stand trial April 8 for the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Daniel J. Gordon; however, that date was pushed until May 13 based on the prosecution’s request for more time.

A former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with reckless homicide and destroying evidence in connection with the July death of 18-year-old Jackson Kradle of Mount Carroll.

Kyle Cooper's first-degree murder trial will begin April 8 in Whiteside County Circuit Court.

A reckless homicide charge has been filed in Will County against a Tesla driver over a Feb. 5 crash that claimed the lives of Sameer Gowani, 36, and Quincy Benbow, 33.

One person is dead after an early morning house fire near Lombard Wednesday.

A 6-year-old child in Joliet was driving an child-sized ATV with an 8-year-old passenger when the “ATV lost control and struck a tree,” police said. investigation indicates parents aware children operated ATV.

A Wood Dale man has been sentenced to three years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed his stepdaughter.

An unidentified woman was struck and killed by a southbound Canadian National Railway train Tuesday morning on the south side of Kankakee.

A Joliet man has been pronounced dead after a late-night shooting in the 1300 block of Pico Court in Jolie Township.

Two individuals died Sunday night in a fatal crash in Woodridge, authorities said.